Alicia Ostriker is the author of nine volumes of poetry, includingThe Imaginary Lover, which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and The Crack in Everything (1996), which was a National Book Award finalist and won both the Paterson Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award.

Her most recent book of poems, The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998, was a National Book Award finalist and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. A new volume, The Volcano Sequence, is due in spring 2002. Ostriker teaches English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University. She can be reached through her website at: